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Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as "a landmark book that
should command the attention of every serious student of American
diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of
negotiation," and cited in Nature for its "worthwhile insights on
the harnessing of science and diplomacy," the first edition of
Ozone Diplomacy offered an insider's view of the politics,
economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the
precedent-setting treaty to protect the Earth: the 1987 Montreal
Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. The first
edition ended with a discussion of the revisions to the protocol in
1990 and offered lessons for global diplomacy regarding the then
just-maturing climate change issue. Now Richard Benedick--a
principal architect and the chief U.S. negotiator of the historic
treaty--expands the ozone story, bringing us to the eve of the
tenth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. He describes subsequent
negotiations to deal with unexpected major scientific discoveries
and important amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the
phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the
protocol's signatories to confront complex economic and political
problems, including North-South financial and technology transfer
issues, black markets for banned CFCs, revisionism, and industry's
willingness and ability to develop new technologies and innovative
substitutes. In his final chapter Benedick offers a new analysis
applying the lessons of the ozone experience to ongoing climate
change negotiations. Ozone Diplomacy has frequently been cited as
the definitive book on the most successful environment treaty, and
is essential reading for those concerned about the future of our
planet.
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